“Love what we see can from our sight remove,
And things invisible are seen by Love.”
John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator
Book I, line 396
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.”
— James Baldwin, book Going to Meet the Man
Source: Going to Meet the Man
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